Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-04-08
wears Of labor and love in our midst. )

1890
week was playing an engagement at the
Union Square Theatre, New York, received
between the acts package of fruit sent be-
hind the curtain by an admirer in the audi
ence, and was soon attacked by nausea. She
! managed however. to finish her performance
on the stage. A ''short, heavy set man with
small black moustache,' is the jealous adj
mirer suspected of attempting to poison her.
Mr.. VIM. Clements. formerly manager OF
the Valley Branch of the B. & 0. road, has
! now been appointed General Manager of all
| the lines of the B. & O. Railway Company
| East of the Ohio river.
| Rev. Rumsey Smithson delivered a Tenn
perance address at Manassas on Tuesday Of
| last week.
A farmer near Asheville N. c.. sent one dol
| lar for lightning potato bug killer, " which
he saw advertised in paper, and received by
| return mail two blocks of wood, with directions
| printed on it as follows ''Take this block
which is No. 1, in the right hand, place the
| bug on No. 2, and press them together. Re-
move the bug and proceed as before"
| Nv. "A. L
to the Richmond dispatch" that one pint of
kerosene oil, half pint spirits of turpentine
and two ounces of gum-camphor shaken well
together and poured over corn will cure chol-
era stricken hogs, who will eat it ravenousy,
even though in the last stages of the disease.
John G.. SAKE, the witty Vermont poet, died
at Albany, N. Y, last week. He had been
! Attorney General of Vermont, and was the
Democratic candidate for Governor of that
State in 1859 and 1860. By trade he was an
editor.
!; John Fl. Bradley, the Washington lawyer
who twenty years ago defended Mary Harris,
the girl who killed her seducer in that city,
and who six years ago at the age of seventy
seven, married his former client, died last
week. He was counsel for John H. Surratt
in 1867, and his name was stricken from the
roll of Judge Fishers court because of an al
] tercation with the Judge. It was restored
about thirteen years ago.
Montana Territory merchant has a hard
times under the last decision of the u S.
Supreme Court in the case of drummer The
home merchant has to pay United States
license if he sends drummer around inside
the territory, but foreign drummer can dc
business there without any license at all.
W. c. Jamison, city tax collector of Roa-
noke city, has been appointed Comptroller OF
the Norfolk & Western Railway, with head
quarters at Philadelphia.
Under the new law, Gov. Wilson of West
Virginia, has just appointed the Directors Of
the State Lunatic Asylum. Of the nine, one
third, as required by law, are Republicans
Among the Democratic members is w. L.
McNeel of Pocahontas.
At the late State ball in Rome, King Hum
bert took the newspaper reporters in charg,
and introduced them to Queen Margareta
with the suggestion that she assist them il
writing up the toilettes of the ladies' She tool
much interest in the work and wound up will
the injunction not to forget her necklace O
pearls, ''for these are the things that especial
ly interest your lady readers"
A bold, bad boy of Illinois, thrust a coupl
of plugs of tobacco into jug of whiskey h
found in the horse sheds during church sup
|
ed seventeen cases of ice-cream poisoning
all men, and the poor women who made the ic
cream cried their innocent eyes out about it.
The Connecticut House of Delegates ha
passed bill requiring saloon keepers to keer
their doors locked until seven in the morn
ing, SO that all working people who begin thei
labors at that hour are shut off from getting
their morning nip. The bill closes all saloon
in the country towns at eleven O'Clock a
night, but in the cities they may be kept ope,
until midnight by special permission of tn
authorities. The bill will doubtless pass til,
Senate.
The colored porter of the building of tn
Equitable Life Insurance Company of New
York, is six feet six inches high, and is mag
nificent specimen of physical manhood. HI
is John A. Seaton, of Alexandria, Va, ans
was for long time on the Capitol police force
in Washington, He receives salary of So,
200 year. His brother George L., once rep
resented Alexandria in the Virginia Legisla
ture.
District Assembly No. 81, K of L. of Rich
mond, refused to take part in the parade ant
ceremonies attending the laying of the corner
stone of the new City Hall there, on tn,
grounds-that the Order was ignored in maxim,
up the programme; that Judge B. r. Wexford
the orator of the day, recently read an ex
IRENE decision from the bench against the or
der in suit; that Norman V. Randolph, tn
Chief Marshall of the day, denounced the
order at Cuisines mass meeting :" that tn
Assistant Marshas are members of the Law
and Order League, and for two or three othe
reasons.
| Rev. 9. M. Howard has been holding serie
of services at the Miller Manual Labor School,
in Albemarle county, and it is stated that 14(
boys out of $50 at the school, and SO girl
(being all of the female pupils) professed con
version.
The State Convention of North CaroIin,
Y. M. Christian Associations, which was held a
Raleigh last week. was great success, Among
those who addressed it were j., T. Dadmun
Secretary of the Norfolk Association, II. O
Williams State Secretary of Virginia, ant
Armand Miller, of Roanoke College. Th
Raleigh ladies got ahead of Staunton, how
ever, having kept an open luncheon at thei
Y. M. G. A. rooms during the session.
While Col. Robert Beverley was riding on
horseback on his farm in Fauquier county
on Sunday week, his horse stumbled and fell
throwing Col. B. to the ground and breaking
two of his ribs. He writes TO a friend saying
that he can walk about the house, but will be
| 10 al
The Wytheville, (ya.,) Enterprise" tells
of fruit tree agent who was SO unfortunate
as to drop one of his glass jars in which he
kept his specimen of fruit when out rolled a
small, wooden apple, constructed after the
most approved plan. The apple was in a